Lentney Battery is a former 20th-century
gun battery
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, built in 1905 as one of three 6-inch gun batteries to defend the Eastern approaches to
Plymouth Sound
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Description
Its southwest and southeast corners are Penlee Point in Cornwall and Wembury Point in Devon, a distance of abo ...
, for the defence of the
Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. It shared accommodation with the nearby Renney Battery.
It was armed with two
6-inch Mark VII breechloading naval guns In 1914 a blockhouse and unclimbable fence was added. The battery was manned by the
Devonshire royal Garrison Artillery. In 1930 the battery was disarmed, but later re-armed during the Second World War.
After the Second World War the battery was used as one of the practice batteries for the Coast Artillery Training School. On the dissolution of coast artillery in the United Kingdom in 1956 the battery was disarmed. It was used for military and adventure training by the Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps until released by the military in 1991, and became
Grade II listed
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the following year.
References
Bibliography
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*{{cite book, first=Freddy, last=Woodward, title=The Historic Defences of Plymouth, publisher=Cornwall County Council, year=1996, isbn=978-1898166467
External sources
Victorian Forts data sheet on Lentney Battery
Forts of Plymouth, Devon
Military history of Devon
Coastal artillery
Artillery battery fortifications in the United Kingdom